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do, especially the little monkey-faced white ones. If you 

 doubt it, come to my dingle dell and watch them any evening 

 when the sandman is making his rounds. As the weeks roll 

 on we shall find untold wealth in oiir store-house. See the 

 buds! Smell the blossoms! Pluck them, handfuls, spray on 

 spray, ^|. 



" Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, 

 Let them live upon their praises; 

 Long as there's a sun that sets. 

 Primroses will have their glory; 

 Long as there are violets. 

 They will have a place in story." 



True, my treasiuy is only a bosky bourn, but I doubt if 

 old Greece herself had a more beautiful Ionia or could pluck 

 sweeter violets to send to the crowning of her king; and how 

 else should Athens have been called "The Violet Crowned 

 City" than for these coronation processions from Ionia, 

 laden as the pilgrims were with royal violets from Asia Minor? 



It seems to have been quite the fashion to call royal 

 capitals "flower-crowned." Athens was not alone in this, 

 for we find ancient Babylonia and mediaeval France alike 

 weaving lily crowns for their favourite cities even as every 

 Louis of that long line had plumed himself on \h& fleur-de-lis 

 which his standard so proudly bore. But between the leader- 

 less mob and the greatest of all leaders of mobs the lilies of 

 France have fallen into the dust and the great leader himself, 

 remembering perhaps the cherished flower of independent 



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